The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Life is warfare.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Solutions are not the answer.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.